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Developer Senior Full Time
Would delivering the control plane that powers a public cloud excite you?
Are you passionate about pushing the limits of scale for cloud-native technologies?
Join our Compute Team!
Akamai's Cloud Technology Group's Compute divisionformerly Linode, now Akamai Cloudconsists of collaborative, inclusive, and creative teams. We develop applications and services to empower our customers. Our mission is to accelerate innovation by making cloud computing simple, scalable, affordable, and accessible to all. We design, develop, test and maintain products that run on our IaaS platform.
Shape the future if Akamai Cloud
With your expertise in Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies, you will provide technical and architectural leadership to design, build, and scale our Next Generation Control Plane. You will lead the transformation toward a highly available, resilient, and distributed microservices architecture designed to support massive-scale operations seamlessly.
As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for:
- Contributing to the design, development, and operation of a Golden Path platform built on Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies
- Providing leadership, support, and mentoring of your team
- Creating and maintaining SLOs and KPIs, collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Support teams
- Participating in on-call rotations, guiding restoration and repair of service-impacting issues
- Working in an environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or similar field) or equivalent experience
- Approach complex problems with methodical curiosity, eager to untangle complex webs of dependencies to gain understanding
- Have deep experience building and operating highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable production services using Kubernetes (ideally self-hosted/managed) and other cloud-native technologies
- Have a solid understanding of Linux internals, especially containerization and networking as well as the technologies that support it
- Take a code-first approach to operating infrastructure, effectively eliminating toil through code fixes and automation
- Be knowledgeable of the Go programming language and comfortable leveraging Python or Bash for scripting needs
- Be familiar using infrastructure as code tools like Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform or Ansible
- Have in-depth experience utilizing modern observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
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